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Rebuilt in 1925 by the architect Duilio Torres, this antique palace is within walking distance of the Accademia Bridge and the Peggy Guggenheim Museum.
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Here is hoping for mediocrity enough to save him for 09' :lol:
Seriously.. my 5 year old daughter knows this much.. but it is still fun to read, especially the last sentence.. ;)
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Coming Up Short in Minnesota[/size]
If a midseason award were given for Most Frustrating Team in the NFL, the 3-4 Minnesota Vikings would no doubt be a favorite for this dubious honor. [img_r]http://www.billingsgazette.net/h/blogs/ychromosome/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/brad_childress1.jpg[/img_r]
Vikings CB Antoine Winfield put his teams uneven effort so far this season in perfect perspective with his one-sentence summation of the teams latest failure an odd 48-41 loss in Week Seven to the division-rival Bears in Chicago:
Somehow, some way, we found a way to lose.
Despite Minnesota owner Zygi Wilfs willingness to greatly expand his payroll this offseason with high-profile free-agent expenditures for both his defense (DE Jared Allen) and offense (WR Bernard Berrian), the Vikings have found all kinds of ways to disappoint their fan base in their four losses, as well as a 12-10 victory in Week Six over the lowly division-rival Lions that was so uninspiring that the Fire Childress chants at halftime ended up being the featured attraction.
To his credit, Brad Childress, Minnesotas beleaguered head coach, has taken full responsibility for his teams failings.
Theres nobody in this building that is happy with the standard right now that were playing at, Childress said early this past week. I think the good thing is that its recognized by the members of this football team. They want to be better, they want to improve, they are all pulling for each other.
Yet, will that be enough to prevent Childress, in his third season as Minnesotas head coach, from following in the same footsteps as NFL counterparts Lane Kiffin, Scott Linehan and, most recently, Mike Nolan, each of whom has already walked the plank before the 2008 seasons official midpoint?
Perhaps a better question is this: Just how frustrated has Wilf become?
They spent $132.4 million this year alone and rank fourth in the league right now in committed cash, a high-rankling NFL executive told PFW. For the product they are showing on the field, Id be sick about it if I were the owner.
You break the bank to win a Super Bowl and you cant even win your own division?
The way we hear it, though, it's unlikely that Wilf will seriously consider pulling the plug on Childress before the 08 season is completed.
Not only did Childress direct a strong turnaround last season, leading the Vikings to an impressive 5-3 second-half record after a similarly disappointing 3-5 first half; he also has the good fortune of coaching a team in the NFC North, which, according to most league observers, does not contain a clear-cut front-runner among the Bears, Packers and Vikings.
But if the Vikings dont clean up their act in a number of key areas that team management is expected to watch very closely the rest of the year, Childress could very well be on the outside looking in next February.
To wit:
After reportedly begrudgingly benching QB Tarvaris Jackson, Childress needs to be rewarded for his faith in Jackson's replacement under center, Gus Frerotte. The way we hear it, Childress turned down Vikings VP of player personnel Rick Spielmans plan to acquire another quarterback besides Frerotte. Frerotte has proven to be a much better game manager than Jackson, but he has been down more often than up, particularly in third-down situations (the team currently ranks 27th in third-down efficiency) a category that is often very closely tied with coaching.
Somehow, some way, the team must start making more big plays on both sides of the ball and cutting down on ill-timed penalties. They are currently tied for 24th with a minus-4 in turnover differential.
An offensive line with three All-Pro-caliber performers (OLT Bryant McKinnie, C Matt Birk and OLG Steve Hutchinson) must be a lot more dominant. Short-armed ORT Ryan Cook has been a particularly weak link.
The defense, which should be helped by the return from injury of free-agent addition S Madieu Williams for the second half of the season, must continue to overcome adversity. Already the teams LB corps has taken a huge hit due to the season-ending loss of underrated MLB E.J. Henderson. In addition, the vaunted D-line could be in a world of trouble if the disclosure by insider Jay Glazer on Fox TVs pregame show Sunday proves true that both Vikings DTs Kevin and Pat Williams are among the players facing four-game suspensions for testing positive under the leagues steroid policy.
Minnesotas special teams, under the direction of coordinator Paul Ferraro, have been flat-out awful so far this season and must show major improvement. Childress has already publicly taken Vikings P Chris Kluwe to task for twice failing to kick the ball out of bounds, away from the Saints Reggie Bush, in the teams win over Saints, and a pair of ugly special-teams breakdowns including a bobbled punt by Kluwe that resulted in a blocked kick that was returned for a TD were key factors in Minnesotas loss to the Bears.
Finally, theres the question of Childress game-day management, which was certainly more than a little questionable against Chicago. Two major examples: (1) His decision to have the Vikings kick off short just before halftime, which made it easier for the Bears to get in range for a field goal that allowed them to seize momentum, and (2) his unsuccessful decision on a key 4th-and-1 play in the third quarter to opt for a Frerotte rollout and use explosive featured back Adrian Peterson as a decoy.
In addition, the Bears seemed to know what the Vikings were running defensively, as Bears QB Kyle Orton kept identifying blitz situations by frequently focusing on Minnesotas Mike linebacker.
Brad (Childress) is an ego guy, an NFL pro scout from a rival team told PFW. I like him, but hes no genius now. Im just glad they got him and Rick Spielman at the helm.
As long as those two guys are running the show, well always have a chance to beat them.
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I hope they keep "Mr. Burns" at the helm for a LONG time.
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Sadly, I've got nothing argue against.....
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F*ck you, vikesrule... see NFL Picks for reasons why...
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Sadly, I've got nothing argue against.....
I'm not a big fan of beating a man when he's down, but based on what has been stated on a certain other thread, there is strong evidence that vikerule likes it, and I'd just like to say that based on his library cache of multimedia reading material stored within his hard drive (ahem), Major Dad would seem like an excellent candidate to assist vikesrule in his safari outside the closet.
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the only thing the vikes have is peterson they wont go far with the way they are playing but other teams will be happy if their special teams keep playing the way they do wont have to have your o-line out there very long :icon_smile:
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alot of viking fans think theyre goin to the SB,with gus ferotte,they'de have a better chance getting a polish man to get an a+ on a math test!
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alot of viking fans think theyre goin to the SB,with gus ferotte,they'de have a better chance getting a polish man to get an a+ on a math test!
Ohhhh.. Burnnnn on the Polocks!! AHAHAH!
Anyway, I think alot of Viking fans (don't generalize me into this bunch) got caught up in the Super Bowl mix because what's-his-face from SI predicted it. Also, consider the theory (which we all know by now is false) that with another years experience for T-Jack and the claims that the game was slowing down for him coupled with the addition of a deep threat pass CATCHING (keyword here is CATCHING) receiver in Berrian would greatly help the offense, considering the Vikings pass game was a non-factor last year. Oh yeah, and with the vast improvement of the Vikings pass defense with the addition of Williams and Allen would just help round out the team.
Again, that was all theory. And it sounded great too. But, don't you Packer fans lie.. I was here when there were a handful of ya'll that were nervous about this years Vikings team.
Lo and behold.. The one part of the theory that was figured as a non-factor ended up being the BIGGEST factor why the Vikings are as mediocre as they are.. The coaching.
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In the spirit of my recently implemented Tueday doubleheader nights at the cinema, I caught up with a couple of the big openings from last weekend.
And was I in for a night of lingering disappointment, let me tell you. But not without some highlights.
First up was Snitch, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's first real attempt at "serious acting."
Side note: Two of the trailers before this Rock movie were other Rock movies coming out shortly, the new G.I. Joe flick and the new Fast and Furious flick. At least Snitch isn't a franchise Johnson has just been plugged into.
Snitch is something of a failure as the morality-based issue film that it tries to be, but it works rather well as an old-school one-man-against-a-bunch-of-badies low-key action film. Actually on that level it works surprisingly well.
There's a number of reasons for that. For one thing, despite his physique and movie star status Johnson is rather good as the everyman caught in a bad situation. He plays it well. There's a great scene early in the film where he tries to set-up some corner drug dealers and ends up getting his ass kicked. Not only is it refreshing to see The Rock get his ass kicked, it's also enjoyable to see how well Johnson plays a vulnerable character. Turns out the man can act.
The film also works well as a believable, down-to-earth action movie. There's no outrageous action sequences. At no point does Johnson hang from a helicopter or drive a car into a blimp or whatever. But there is a whole load of tension building to an excellent car versus semi chase sequence that is thrilling as hell while never seeming overblown or outrageous. It's even filmed well, which is like finding the Rosetta Stone this day and age.
Where the film gets into trouble is as it tries to mean something. When Charles Bronson took out a bunch of street hoods in Death Wish you yelled "F-yeah Charles Bronson" because you hate criminals too and everybody is happy. In this film we're supposed to be angry about minimum mandatory sentences for first time drug offenses, but I don't see how getting the audience to root for Johnson taking out a bunch of hardcore drug dealers is supposed to garner sympathy for this.
Because regardless about my "real world" opinion on this issue, by the end of the movie I was firmly in the pro-justice, anti-drug dealer camp. So the last blurb about how unfair stiff sentences are didn't exactly make my blood boil. All I thought is that if they keep Omar and Juan Obregon off the street then God bless them.
But if you can look past that, Snitch is a solid, well made thriller that's actually highly enjoyable. Also Barry Pepper is in it. I always feel the need to point that out.
Dark Skies could have been a solid sci-fi/horror movie if again it wasn't for some weird politics going on. Unfortunately that aspect is far harder to overlook with this one.
The movie is about a family that starts having strange things happen to them in their house. Familiar? Things bump in the night. Somehow their kitchen gets reorganized in a less-than-helpful way. The kid starts acting weird. Dad sets up video cameras to record everything going on in the house. Familiar?
The film is also from the same producers as Insidious and Sinister, so you know from the start how this is going to go down. Things will get creepy, they'll escalate and then there will be a big, likely disappointing, finale. But those films, especially Sinister, were actually quite good. Dark Skies is less than great.
Dark Skies throws a slight curveball by having aliens in the mix. I liked the sci-fi aspect as something different. I also thought Keri Russell and Josh Hamilton were great leads. There are genuine scares in the film. I believe it has the basic elements of a potentially highly entertaining scare show.
But then it gets all weirdly right wing, family values, judgmental on us and totally lost me. Spoilers upcoming.
The finale of the film involves the family having to do their utmost to stay together as a family unit. On the Fourth of July. While Stars and Stripes Forever or something like that is playing on the TV. After buying a shotgun and boarding up the windows. And then what's the reason that doesn't work and a kid gets abducted? Because he watched a few minutes of a crappy porno earlier in the film.
I mean, if I'm going to get abducted I'm at least going to watch porn with good production values and better music. Just saying.
So while the buildup has some punch, the payoff falls completely flat because it's ridiculous and preachy and, let's just say it, a little xenophobic. I mean, I know these aren't pleasant Mexicans just hoping for a little landscaping work, but the whole tone of the last act reeks of "board up yer windows and get yer guns cause them aliens are coming."
You could have this payoff and not end up with this tone, but the whole Fourth of July thing sets an undeniable agenda. And it's one that I'm not comfortable with.
And then the kid gets abducted because he watched pornography once. Just had to reiterate that. I hope it sounds as ridiculous to you as it does to me. Let's hope that's not the aliens' overall agenda or else the entire population of North America might soon find themselves abducted. Think about that the next time you logon. I guess one group of told-you-sos might remain. Maybe the makers of this film.
So two films that hit unfortunate road blocks, but I think Snitch at least made it through with only a misdemeanor ticket. It shouldn't have to do any time, but I guess you never know with these mandatory minimums. Damn government. But Dark Skies deserves the slammer for tricking us into swallowing its us-versus-them, Holier-than-thou high-ground finale. For shame.
Snitch and Dark Skies are in cinemas now.


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Green Bay has some of the finest schools in the state. The teachers are dedicated to student achievement.[read more...]
Air Alerts and Toxic Clean-Ups - 8/26/2010
With nearly 200,000 people in the metro Green Bay area, traffic congestion has become a major problem. Summers have become extremely hot and humid with dewpoints reaching higher numbers than places in Florida. When the wind blows in from the Southeast, we have unhealthy air alerts. The paper industy has polluted the air quality here. The Fox River superfund clean-up with removal of PCB's is in full-swing. Our water costs have gone way up with the addition of the Lake Michigan pipeline and utilities have become costly. Go up to the Northwoods Wisconsin to find pristine air to breathe.[read more...]
Green Bay - NOT a frozen tundra and NOT all about - 7/27/2009
Contrary to popular belief, the climate in Green Bay is not much different from any other state in the midwest or east. For instance, it is not generally colder in Green Bay than it is in Chicago. I also doubt that the winterz in Green Bay are colder than eastern states, but I don't know that for sure.
Green Bay has many things going for it besides the Packers...Bay Beach, trails, a thriving downtown, a burgeoning art community, botanical gardens, the NEW Zoo, wineries, award-winning cheese manufacturers, many events, and much more![read more...]
good place to raise a family - 6/26/2009
Green Bay has a small country town feel with the amineties of a bigger city including the Packers. Crime is very low and people are very friendly. Wisconsin taxes and the long winters are a draw back and cause many retirees to leave the state. The cost of housing is very reasonable and medical care is excellent which is why the President visited us to make a push for his health plan.[read more...]
Snow and Cold - 3/29/2009
Other than the snow and cold Green Bay is a great place to live: Low cost of living, low crime rate, great shopping, etc.[read more...]
I Like It Here! - 2/11/2009
I've lived in Green Bay for over forty years. Sure we have some rough winters but overall the climate is great. We enjoy the four seasons to the fullest. Even though we have an urban setting, we haven't lost our small town atmosphere.
As a real estate broker, I have first hand knowledge of our excellent housing and job market. I like it here! I can't imagine living anywhere else.[read more...]
As a member of one of those "Green Bay families" i - 9/26/2008
You want to know what Green Bays about? Well I am from one of those huge multi generational "Green Bay families" that never leave and I will tell you exactly what Green Bay is like. Ok Green Bay is a regional legal, hospital, retail and entertainment center with a paper manufacturing base. So what you get with Green Bay basically is a small city with a nearly abandoned downtown and a population that is made up of those too stupid to leave and failed farmers from "up norf" looking to make it in the "big city." I was born and raised in Green Bay and it really is a good place to have a big family, if your rich, which very few are! Problem is anyone with a brain and/or an education leaves first changes they get because the job market is worse than terrible..Its 3rd world!
The true locals are nice, friendly and well educated. Educated enough to leave toot sweet and they are replaced by failed farmers and U.P of Michigan refugees who are little more than vicious, ignorant and seriously drunk hill billies. These hick farm folk come to Green Bay and are complete jerks because they don't know how to deal with traffic, they think Green Bay is a big scary city full of bad people and they are overwhelmed by things like stop lights, parking ramps or things like seeing actual minorities. In short Green Bay is great, if you want to make 11 bucks an hour, stay drunk 24/7/365, weigh 300lbs+++ and like to do things like shining deer with spot lights or shooting beer cans of the hood of your pick up truck with a rusty .22 and not care if you miss and hit the truck. For everyone else, aka normal sober non-U.P'ers, Green Bay is the Gaza strip of the mid-west. It really is little more than a refugee camp for failed farmers and UP'er fleeing the utter wasteland of the Upper peninsula of Michigan.
Green Bay is a complete dump and its worse than even the most negative people here are saying! The weather is as bad as they say and the people are hick, ignorant and extremely drunk! In fact here is how bad the drinking is in Wisconsin. Nevada is #1 in booze consumption and Wisconsin is second. Both states are about 5 million people yet Nevada gets 36 million tourists a year into the party towns of Reno and Los Vegas. So the reality is that the 5 million people of Wisconsin drink almost as much as the state of Nevada with nothing even close to the 36 million tourists or a party Mecca like Vegas! We don't get 36 million tourists to pad our consumption numbers, 5 million Wisconsinites just normally drink as much as the 40 million people rolling through Nevada every year! The amount of drinking is honestly shocking and the best advice I could gave you is never try to go drink for drink with someone from Wisconsin, you could easy die! I'm even talking skinny Wisconsin college girls, they will burry you! I'm not kidding even most of the women here would and could drink a case of beer (we don't have 3.2 beer like Nevada either!) and still function well enough to drive to IHOP for post drinking pancakes. I heard a Green Bay cop once say that he had cut back on his drinking and was down to a case of beer a day! A CASE A DAY AND THIS IS A GREEN BAY COP WITH 15-20 YEARS OF SERVICE TALKING!! The place is that terrible and worse!
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Climate - 11/29/2007
We have four distinct seasons, cold winters, hot summers, and mild spring and falls[read more...]
Green Bay - 11/19/2007
Green Bay
1. if your a Packers fan you might like the city 2. low crime rate 3.
very cheap place to live 4. Lambeau Field
1. very poor job market 2. having lived for 7 years in WI, the winters are
very rough up in Green Bay 3. number of rude people 4. unappealing looking city 5. most of the people can only hold a conversation if it revolves around the Packers. 6. Not a place to live if your not a Packers fan 7. many Packers fans can be obnoxious[read more...]
Living in Green Bay....the good, the bad and the u - 6/15/2007
Well, where do I start? Green Bay is not perfect. The other person was right, the people are very territorial. Generations have lived here forever. It seems very few people leave. It can be very hard to meet and establish long-term friendships. However, a lot of new people are moving in. This predominately blue-collar town is transitioning. More educated people are moving into this area and that is definately changing the landscape. The weather can be awful; however spending one year in the desert southwest...I was itching for some variety and quite frankly a break from the sun. The "pollution problem", well folks, it does exist here but in MUCH less numbers than other places such as Madison, Milwaukee, Chicago, Phoenix, Denver, (I can keep going). Green Bay is different in the aspect that they are working hard to rectify past generations ignorance/apathy toward the environment. The Fox River is going thru a major clean-up and will most likely be PCB free in the next decade. Also, the biking trails are outstanding here! Out of EVERY place I have ever lived including Madison, WI (dubbed bike capitol of the U.S.), Green Bay puts them all to shame. There are several major bike paths that extend for MILES where one doesn't have to battle traffic...ever. It is amazing!
I have lived in Green Bay for a total of almost 11 years (wow, that number shocked me) and although when I left the first time I swore I would never be back...I am happy to be where I am now. The first time I lived in Green Bay from 1992-1996, I felt the area was very provential and stifling. I was young and ready to see more of the world. Well, I saw more and I realized that maybe Green Bay wasn't so terrible. When my husband got a great job offer here, I really felt at odds with coming back. It is not quite my dream place, but truly don't know if any place like that exists. We have a beautiful home, in a great neighborhood, some good friendships and easy access to some beautiful nature. My children attend a WONDERFUL school and the love where they live. The airport is large enough to get us out of here quickly and cities like Minneapolis and Chicago are an easy day drive.
So in short, it is a good place to live. I have lived in other parts of the country/world and I guess I have discovered with maturity that every place has some citizens begging to get out (usually the young) and some citizens begging to get in (mostly the older and wiser). It is what you make[read more...]
Let's get it straight - 4/29/2007
Ok, most of the posts are either exaggerating, or just plain lying. I'll address the issues most commonly mentioned, only I'll use truth. Weather- Yes, it's not the best in the country, but it's exactly like any other midwestern city- including Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Madison. It wouldn't be fair to single out one city for long winters and humid summers. Mother nature doesn't work with boundary lines. Water, No it's not "toxic" to drink, and No, we've never been told to drink it in low doses, which doesn't even make sense, if water's bad- it's bad, any amount will harm you. If you live in surrounding areas and are drinking well water, that's your own fault, move into the city where they have a water utility plant. The Fox River- Yes, very polluted, but they are taking steps to clean it up. They recognize the problem and are working to resolve it, but at no point could you ever "walk across it", or even come close. Close minded/rude people- I've lived in Madison, Minneapolis, Colorado Springs and Green Bay- close minded and rude people are not confined to one area in this country, let's not pretend Green Bay is the root of all evil. Generational families- a lot of comments complained about this, which is strange to me as I see it as a testament to Green Bay as it being a great place to live and raise your family. Obviously family values and close ties are prominent in this area, it's strange that some would find this as a negative. The Packers- if you know anything about Green Bay, you would know many people find the Packers annoying, aside from putting GB on the map they serve little purpose aside from traffic jams and an annoying amount of local news coverage. There are plenty of other ways to spend your time in GB other than at bars and watching TV (side note- it was funny to read all the people suggesting others live in Milwaukee or Madison because of Green Bay's drinking problem, when both of those cities have higher numbers of bars per capita and drinking related problems, not to mention just higher crime in general than Green Bay) Bottom line, Green Bay is a friendly, open community. However, any city you choose to live in is just as good as you make it. If you focus on the few negatives and refuse to get out there, meet and develope relationships with people and your community of course you'll hate it and want to get out- but let's not kid ourselves- that reflects upon you, not the city.[read more...]
There is no perfect place! - 3/14/2007
I spent part of my childhood in Green Bay and wanted to do nothing more than leave when I finished high school. I have since traveled to over eighty countries and thirty-eight states and am now moving back to Green Bay. I have visited many places that had features that Green Bay doesn't, but I have also seen the warts on these nice places as well. Green Bay has a nice mixture of friendly people, a low cost of living, decent schools, and a low violent crime rate that make it very attractive for people like me who have held the brass ring and are ready for a quieter, gentler pace. Yes, the weather can be horrific at times, but then, after living through the 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons in Florida, it doesn't seem that bad.[read more...]
really bad Weather, irritating people, high taxes, - 10/2/2006
I no longer live in Green Bay and wonder how I ever did. The weather is really bad...the pollution and water are deadly and the people are not that nice. The town is made up of mostly a bunch of clans that have been there for generations. If you come in from the outside you will never be accepted or fit into this community. Just go around town on Thanksgiving or XMAS and you will see, every 5 houses has 20 cars parked outside. The air and water pollution is the worst in the country. The most polluted river in the U.S. runs right thru the middle of town and it is putrid, just go down and take a look at the water, you could almost walk across it. It will take billions to clean up the Fox River. The air pollution given off by the stinking paper mills will burn your nose if you are upwind of them. They actually have an island just offshore Lake Michigan made up of PCB's and paper waste. Northern Wisconsin and the Madison area are a thousand times nicer if you have to live in Wisconsin. The taxes in this state are outrageous, high income taxes, thru the roof property taxes, high sales tax. Heating bills that will leave you crying and short summers that will piss you off. After enduring bitterly cold, dirty snow and clouds month after month after month, you would think something decent would come along by April, FORGET it. The weather is still cloudy, cool and wet every year until June, then you better get out and enjoy it because by August the days are getting short and the evenings getting cool. The only thing to do in the town is watch the stupid ass Packers and I am a fan, but they can't even get that right. It will be another 30 years before those boys win another championship. The Packers have a bad GM and a lousy coach. The best thing that could happen to them is if Bellichek ever became available(like he would ever move to this craphole).
Good players don't want to move to Green Bay. If you have ever lived in a warm climate don't move here. They do have pretty good golf courses in the area for the 30 months you can use them and some of the Friday Night fish frys are good(Brett Favres Steakhouse has a good one).[read more...]
Not that Bad - 8/10/2006
I haved lived in Green Bay for almost 10 years now and while the climate can be difficult at times, the people are all very inviting. We have a great melting pot of people and cultures while the crime, especially violent crime, remains lower than in most cities of this size. The city plays host to many large festivals for everyone to enjoy and the quality of life here is in my opinion high. We're not California sunny all the time, but it is a great place to live and raise a family.[read more...]
Horrible weather - 7/12/2006
No Spring. The 8 years I lived there no decent weather until June. Cloudy, Miserably cold winters from November through March, then generally wet cool and cloudy until June. The snow they get is horrible for outdoor activities. The snow usually turns to dirty piles, combined with the almost everyday cloudiess makes for a depressing place to live.[read more...]
Not a whole lot other then the Pack - 7/12/2006
Green Bay is an ok city to live in, low cost of living and easy go attitude but theres not alot to do when the Pack isnt playing.[read more...]
Green Bay is very family oriented - 4/16/2006
There are so many activities for families in the Green Bay area...library programs, hospital sponsered programs, events at the expo center, etc. People are very friendly.[read more...]
GreenBay~ last comments were so funny!!! - 4/12/2006
I am SO glad I am not the only one! I pretty much grew up in New England and you know how we can be a bit stand off-ish. We are living in Appleton and they are 10X worse. Just rude people. At least in NE when we drove we had a bit of "waving someone in" these people will just cut you right off! Or when you do let them in, not even a wave, or a thank you. We have lived all over the country, and this is right up there with the worst. And the drinking, OMG, we went into a town of say 10,000 people, we counted 11 bars in the very small downtown, like a bar, a store, a bar. WHY? Do you need that many bars? We stay off the roads on weekends. We are counting the days to get out of here!!![read more...]
Some comments about the previous posts - 3/25/2006
I have lived in Green Bay for 9+ years, and as for the climate: If you aren't from the upper midwest, of course you're going to think the weather's horrible. I'm originally from Minnesota, and don't think there's anything different about the weather here. You have to be used to hot humid summers and long cold winters. As for the water/air quality--I quit noticing it after living here a couple of years. If you live outside of the Green Bay utility area, you are going to have bad water. As for the people-you can have fun, but it's real hick and families have lived here for generations and NEVER leave! Many people have rarely ever left the state, and that's the cause for a lot of the closed-mindedness. It would be a nice place to have a family, but other than that, you would be better off in Madison or Milwaukee. And the only thing to do is get drunk, and people here don't seem to realize there is more to life.[read more...]


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2.1. Introduction
WebLearn mirrors the organisational structure of the University. The front page contains links to the 4 Divisions, the Colleges and the other top-level administrative units. Each Divisional area then contains links to individual departments, in much the same way the College area presents links to the individual colleges. This logical structure should make it easy to navigate to the desired target if the web address is not known. It also promotes casual browsing which can be a useful form of outreach.
2.2. Browsing and Logging In
Best results are achieved by using the FireFox web browser; Internet Explorer is also supported and can be used if FireFox is either not available or cannot be installed; FireFox is strongly recommended and using Internet Explorer will result in a slightly degraded experience. Apple Macintosh users should also use FireFox in preference to Safari.
You do not have to login to look at WebLearn; however, most colleges and departments will have their course materials in areas that do require you to log in. To gain access you need your 'WebAuth' Oxford Single Sign-On (SSO) username and password. (These credentials are the same as those used for Self-Registration, course booking and many other services around the University.) If you have never used your SSO account then you will need to activate it. If you have forgotten your password then you will have to reset it.
2.3. WebLearn For Students
"It would be a lot more difficult to catch up on my work if I didn't have WebLearn." Fresher, Biological Sciences.
Most departments and colleges have resources in WebLearn. Usually your tutor will provide you with a link or advise you where to find your course material, alternatively you may browse either system and navigate to the appropriate college or department area.
Your local IT Support Staff provide the first level of on-the-spot help. Links to local IT support pages, which includes a list of who to contact if you have a problem, are available for most colleges and departments.
2.3.1. Finding Your Course Materials: A Quick Guide
Log in to WebLearn, to do this click on Oxford Account in the top right corner and log in using your 'WebAuth' Oxford Single Sign-On (SSO) username and password.
If you already know the web address (URL) of your material, type it into your browser in the same way as for any website. WebLearn will take you directly to the correct location.
To find your course materials you can do any of the following:
- Click on the 'My Active Sites' tab (top right). WebLearn will list the sites of which you are a member. Click on the link to the site that you want.
- Click on 'Search my sites' in the menu at the left side of this screen. Then follow the instructions that appear.
- Click on the link to your division in the list of sub-sites which are displayed at the left side of the screen and in the left-hand box below. Then follow the subsequent links to locate your department and course.
If you cannot find what you are looking for you should contact your course tutor.
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- Getting started for students
- My Workspace
- Getting started for students
- Completing assignments for students
- Discussion forums for students
- Messages for students
- Resources for students
- Subscribing to a WebLearn Podcast
In addition, WebLearn also has a link to context-sensitive pop-up help on every single page; this is generally correct but may be out of date in some areas, please refer to the guidance site first..
2.3.3. Skills Development Courses
188.8.131.52. Career Development Skills (commissioned by the University Skills Group)
The WebLearn team has been working closely with the University Skills Group (USG - formerly the Graduate Skills Advisory Group) to move the former 'Online courses' (now called 'Career Development Skills') into WebLearn. The courses were previously hosted within a different VLE service (provided by Continuing Education) which required a special username and password.
Although the courses are aimed at graduate students and researchers, they are available to all Oxford users. Each course (with the exception of Avoiding Plagiarism 2) contains a test which has a pass mark of 80%; successful completion will trigger the dispatch of an electronic 'certificate' via email.
There are a total of 15 Career Development Skills courses. These are:
126.96.36.199. Research Skills Toolkit
The Research Skills Toolkit is a special area of WebLearn where researchers can explore a variety of IT tools and online services. Although the site has been designed with research students in mind, it is open to any member of Oxford University.
The Skills Toolkit is a joint project from the IT Learning Programme at IT Services, the Bodleian Libraries and the Careers Service. It complements a series of live events held at IT Services. Groups of research students are invited to try out a selection of IT tools and online services, and to talk to specialist IT teachers and Libraries staff.
2.4. WebLearn for Departments and Colleges
Please refer to the earlier section for details about how to establish a WebLearn presence for your department or college.
|In relation to the institutional VLE, WebLearn, lecturers within the same course should: Provide students with the same "base level" of service (i.e. in making PowerPoint presentations, lecture notes and so forth available), even if they do not all use the other tools and features provided. A key recommendation taken from the Thema project.
2.4.1. Course-related Support
The classic use of WebLearn is for supporting courses. There are numerous facilities that may be of use ranging from the storage of lecture notes and reading lists through to the organising of tutorials or meetings.
Departments may like to divide their presence by course, or have separate areas for undergraduates, postgraduates and staff. Colleges often have separate areas for tutorials, (where each tutor would have his or her own site(s),) subjects, the library, specialist study centres and learning-related administrative information.
2.4.2. Pandemic Planning
WebLearn offers many facilities which will be invaluable should parts of the University have to close due to a pandemic.
WebLearn has many tools that will allow teaching and learning to continue in the absence of face-to-face meeting between students and tutors. The most obvious approach is to set up a site with all members of a course or tutorial group listed as participants. This site can then host learning materials in the Resources tool within a WebLearn site; any documents stored in Resources can be found by the Search tool.
The document repository can be backed up by the use of the Chat and Forums tools for synchronous and asynchronous communications respectively. The Sign-up tool could be used to arrange a series of online tutorials in much the same way as it can be used to organise face-to-face tutorials and /or the site Schedule (calendar) can be used to indicate when a tutor will be present in the chat-room to answer student questions.
The Email archive (mail list) and Announcements tool also facilitate easy communication within a course. The Assignments tool (with optional 'Turnitin' plagiarism checking) can be used for the on-line submission of essays, and tests can be conducted within the Tests assessment tool.
There are more details about the individual tools in the section entitled Tools in the WebLearn.
We would recommend that departments and colleges begin planning now; the first thing to do is establish a WebLearn presence and begin setting up and infrastructure that can be brought into play should there be a need.
2.4.3. Outreach and Publicity / Open Days
We would like to recommend that all colleges and departments have totally public 'home pages' in WebLearn - this site can be used both for general outreach and to support the annual Open Day. The ease that one can upload documents and create or edit web pages will make the process of disseminating essential information painless.
One excellent use of such pages is to highlight teaching and learning activities. Example materials such as resource packs, podcasts, reading lists and course handouts could be made available on such sites to give a flavour of the quality of teaching in order to help with recruitment.
WebLearn also offers a survey tool for conducting free surveys, either to collect information prior to an event, or feedback after an event.
2.4.4. Liaising with Pre-arrival Students
Now that students are supplied with their Oxford SSO credentials before they arrive at University they will be able to access WebLearn in advance of starting their studies. Reading lists and documents can be circulated and formative assessment carried out so that new students are able to 'hit the ground running' when they arrive.
A WebLearn site for pre-arrival students could contain the following:
- links to other University systems including the libraries
- an outline of basic skills that will be needed
- an electronic welcome pack containing:
- links to departmental resources
- a link to the Student Union
- a link to the Newcomer's Club
- links to relevant societies
- things to do upon arrival
- 'catch up' materials (for students who have taken a 'gap year')
- a link to admissions
- information about English language courses (often useful for graduate students)
- reading lists
- an electronic copy of the handbook
- information about tutorials
- maps and information about accommodation
- an area for new students to converse with their peers; (obviously suitable volunteers must be identified to act as mentors):
2.4.5. Training and Help
As well as the ITLP training courses, IT Services can provide special training sessions located within a department so long as there will be 10 or more attendees. Please contact the WebLearn team for more information.
There is also a very useful WebLearn Guidance site which contains guides to most of the WebLearn tools.
2.4.6. Advertising WebLearn
There area number of resources available for download and customisation allowing departments or colleges to create their own documentation or advertise WebLearn in public areas.
- documentation
- logos and graphics (includes HTML for use on websites)
- posters
- publicity leaflets
2.4.7. Case Studies
There are a number of case studies which outline how different people are using WebLearn. Here are some of the highlights:
- Evidence-Based Health Care MSc
- Chinese Language
- Boethius Project (inter-institutional project)
- History of Art
- Conference of Colleges (Administration)
- Survey Tool
- Politics Tutoring
- Masters in e-Learning (Dep. of Education)
- Supporting students' learning and formation using WebLearn (Wycliffe Hall)
- Using WebLearn tools to improve teaching practice
- Electronic tools for teaching (Earth Sciences)
- Using WebLearn to support tutors and students (Dept. of Biochemistry)
- Supporting first year teaching: Physics tutorials and WebLearn
- Supporting tutorial teaching (Dept. of Biochemistry)
2.5. WebLearn For Staff
All University staff are entitled to an area within which to host teaching and learning material. To check if your department already has an area you should login to WebLearn and use the navigation menu on the lower left-hand side of the page to enter the division within which your unit is located. Similarly, use the 'Colleges' link to see which colleges currently have a presence. If an area exists, then enter it by clicking on the link, contact one of the owners listed in Site Info and ask to be given permission to create an area for your own material. Many tutors like to have area within their college site for material relating to their tutorials.
Help on getting started is available on the WebLearn front page which also contains a link to further help on getting started.
WebLearn also contains a comprehensive WebLearn Guidance site containing a variety of user guides, case studies, exemplar and showcase sites plus links to software packages that may prove useful when establishing a departmental presence. WebLearn also has a link to context-sensitive pop-up help on every single page.
Your local IT Support Staff provide the first level of on-the-spot help. Links to local IT support pages are available for most colleges and departments.
2.5.1. Useful Links
- Training materials .
- Overview of WebLearn (includes functionality, establishing a departmental presence, migration and useful links).
- If you have problems using the software and cannot find an answer in the documentation then please contact: email@example.com.
- Book WebLearn training. If you wish to organise training in your department or college then please contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
- Problems with Oxford Single Sign-On accounts should be referred to the IT Services Help Centre
2.6. WebLearn for ITSS / Webmasters
Please refer to the earlier section for details about how to establish a WebLearn presence for your department or college; this website has a list of all units that have already requested an area in WebLearn.
There are regular briefing sessions for ITSS, these will be advertised through the usual channels and booking will be possible via IT Services ITS3 pages. There is a special 'Least You Need To Know' guide giving an overview of WebLearn for ITSS and there is lots of other useful information on the WebLearn Guidance site.
2.6.1. Advertising WebLearn
There area number of resources available for download and customisation allowing departments or colleges to create their own documentation or advertise WebLearn in public areas.
- documentation (MS Word originals)
- logos and graphics (includes HTML for use on websites)
- posters
- publicity leaflets
2.7. Ten reasons to use WebLearn
- A simple way to put material on the web Many staff put up their handouts, lecture slides, reading lists, and so on. WebLearn avoids having to rely on IT support officers mounting information, anybody who has been given permission to do so can easily create HTML web pages, upload searchable Word documents, PowerPoint slides, Excel spreadsheets, and so on.
- Easily control access to your material WebLearn contains information about affiliations of every staff member and student, these affiliations can be used to grant access to any area of the system.
- Reduction in paperwork Handbooks can be stored centrally, handouts do not have to be photocopied, internal documents can be circulated, and so on. WebLearn allows easy creation of student feedback forms online so feedback is automatically collated.
- Allows one to experiment with additional e-learning tools WebLearn comes with e-learning tools for you to use quickly and easily such as discussion forums, electronic pigeon holes, quizzes, and questionnaires - all set up with a few clicks. Common uses include formative assessment, surveys, essay submission via Turnitin, student feedback tools or tests to assist revision.
- Allows you to keep in touch with students out of class You can use the Announcement or Email Archive tools to contact students outside of class via email. Another idea is to aid last-minute revision by agreeing to be present in a chat room to answer questions at a set time in the days leading up to an exam.
- Helping the students WebLearn provides a single place for learning support material, which is all held in one searchable cohesive space, and students can browse outside of their disciplines.
- Saving your work WebLearn can be looked at as a central repository for teaching material. It is backed up regularly and archive snapshots of WebLearn are taken at set intervals.
- Providing an area for cross-institutional projects WebLearn allows you to control access to certain areas and documents. It lets you create usernames for external collaborators working on projects. Projects can create their own private intranets to hold important documents.
- Integration with other systems WebLearn is supported centrally and is integrated with a number of other IT Services systems including Oxford Single-Sign On (WebAuth), Oak access management services and Bodleian Library's SOLO.
- It's accessible The WebLearn team recently ran a project with the Disability Office to assess the WebLearn system. Users had very few complaints (although some minor changes were made) and most made the comment that it was "better than the old system". Interested parties may like to read the report about accessibility in Sakai (the software upon which WebLearn is based).
2.8. What People Have Said About WebLearn
2.8.1. General
"As academic colleagues we constantly discuss both the content of our research and research practices, but we rarely discuss exactly what or how we teach. Using WebLearn we can see each others' teaching materials and share our approaches to tutorial and class teaching, subject by subject. It helps us to exchange ideas and encourages each of us to reflect on our own teaching practices." Teresa Morgan
"WebLearn is a wonderful system with many features which benefit both teaching and the management of students' work. It is easy and fun to use. The most important thing is that you must stretch the imagination and try to explore the facilities to expand your teaching." Shio-yun Kan, a lecturer in Chinese Language.
"We believe the active engagement in the course is due to three factors: deep interest in the subject, engaging teaching methods, and the WebLearn Virtual Learning Environment." Dr Amanda Burls, Department of Primary Health Care
"I'm not an expert IT user but have found WebLearn easy to learn." Rita Rattray, Conference of Colleges
"Having worked my way through the basics, I have to say the New WebLearn is a great improvement over the old. WebDAV in particular will make life much easier. Thank you for all the work you have put into it." Rachel Crawford, IT Support Officer, Oxford Department of International Development
"It's brilliant! I was up and running in half an hour. It gives you something you can start playing with instantly." Peter Darrah, Lecturer in Biological Sciences talking about site templates
2.8.2. Hosting Documents
"One of the reasons we are using the Wiki tool is so that we can put files up in this area that [...] members can edit without overwriting each other's work. At the moment we've managed to split our tasks in a way that we can keep track of the changes each of us makes, but once we've collected all the material we need and begin the editing process of the full corpus, we will need to work on a 'master' document that all of us can access and edit at different times. The wiki tool is perfect to meet this requirement." Dr Rohini Jayatilaka, Faculty of English Language and Literature
"WebLearn is bringing the whole of the Conference of Colleges together in a new searchable, legible, comprehensive and hierarchical series of sites and folders. On the Senior Tutors' site, facilities mean that new sets of information are now available - and can be readily used and shared. One small but powerful example of the greater access and control is the single click Senior Tutors' mail-list with archiving of correspondence. I'm sure that as it develops WebLearn will have beneficial effects on how the University does its business." Dr Nicola Trott, Senior Tutor of Balliol
"Using the drop box facility in WebLearn was perfect as a simple and secure way of allowing Exam Board Administrators to transfer the Results Spreadsheet to the Examinations team in Student Administration. It took one morning to set up. People in Departments have told us that this change to the process (they were using memory sticks before) was a huge improvement. They found it more convenient, easy to use (training consisted of a one page training HOW TO guide). It meant that time was saved in the process, staff didn't have to walk down to exams more than once. Everybody had access, it was easy to maintain, staff in the Examination Team found it ideal to manage spreadsheets coming in from 300+ exam boards." Victoria Clark, Change and Process Manager, Student Administration, Academic Administration Division
"Since the documents in our WebLearn site are essentially the raw material for our project, what WebLearn has enabled us to do is to make our work accessible to team members based outside Oxford, whilst keeping it secure until we publish it." Dr Rohini Jayatilaka, Faculty of English Language and Literature
"There are two important benefits of using WebLearn: 1. We can easily maintain and update it ourselves without having to ask a webmaster to change things on an intranet; 2. We can carefully control access to various areas and particular resources." Nicola Harvey-Cooper (Examinations Schools)
2.8.3. Communication
"The single most useful thing undergraduates in a tutorial group can do is to talk to each other. If they are not able to meet face to face over, for example, a cup of coffee, then WebLearn is the next best thing. I know very quickly which tutorial groups talk together as it shows in their work. By discussing the topics of lectures and tutorials they quickly discover alternative ways of looking at the subject by seeing it through the eyes of another undergraduate. I always encourage my tutorial groups to talk to each other, to perhaps divide up a reading list between them and then pool their resources and ideas, and also to share their essays. Anything WebLearn is able to do to enhance the undergraduate's learning experience can only be good." Anne Lee, social psychology tutor for the Department of Experimental Psychology
"It's easy to use and the fact that you are notified via email simplifies things." Sam Smith, Chinese Language student.
"I would say that the forums and resources tool has been really excellent and extremely useful for our Summer School students to use - we have a great amount of use particularly on the forums. Also, the Survey tool has allowed us to collect confidential data in a way which has substantially increased the productivity of our office. " Kathryn Spicksley, UNIQ Summer Schools Coordinator,
"I think that the fact it looks more 'grown-up' than [old] WebLearn is not irrelevant. The one thing I still miss about [old] WebLearn as it currently is, is the ability to group email every member of a class, so I am delighted that this is a key feature of the new WebLearn." Craig Clunas, Professor of History of Art
"We have found that WebLearn is a very effective way of communicating with our multitude of committees and is ideal for storing, protecting and distributing minutes, agendas and other important documents." Rita Rattray, Conference of Colleges
2.8.4. Assessment
"The way assignments are set up is good, with the deadline and grade once it's been marked. Chat-rooms and announcements are a good way to communicate with teachers and classmates, and bring important things to our attention." Marie-France Johns, Chinese Language student.
2.8.5. Surveys / Feedback
"I have been pleased with the trial we did using WebLearn for lecture feedback last term. It saved me a great deal of time in processing the results for presenting to the tutors, as we carry out feedback requests to undergraduates for each lecturer each term. The different formats of report was also useful." Elaine Sherrott, Earth Sciences
2.8.6. Mobile Oxford and WebLearn
[The WebLearn Poll session via Mobile Oxford was] "much better than normal CAL as this can be a waste of time, would be better to have a poll quiz like this every week during CAL time." 1st year Undergraduate Medicine student, May 2011
We were impressed at how enthusiastic those students with internet enabled mobiles were for the Mobile Oxford interface and observed that students were clearly engaged actively in the session. Helen Christian, teacher of 1st year Undergraduate Medicine, May 2011
2.9. Contact Information
If you cannot find the answer to your questions on the WebLearn Guidance site or by clicking on the help links or by speaking to your local IT support officer then send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com
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Jim Black
So, I attempted a search to see if anyone had mentioned Jim Black before, but instead I found every thread about black drums, black rims, Back in Black, or Black Hole Sun.
This guy is an absolute monster. I had the real pleasure of seeing him at my school either sometime spring 07 or fall 06, I forget. He held a 2-hour clinic where he worked with a small group on how to develop a group dynamic/connection during free improvisations and it was just great. He played a show with some of the students later that night in a real last-minute set up and it was just amazing. He's going to be making a return visit in the next couple of weeks and will be staying for a couple of days, and I'm extremely excited.
He has a really unique setup which is worth checking out (especially his cymbals), and he's an absolute master at coaxing as many possible sounds out of the drums as he can (different sticks, bowing cymbals, bending heads, and other crazier things). He also augments the kit sounds by using a whole bunch of different trinkets/toys for sound effects, including shakers, bells, and little music boxes.
It's really interesting to note where he's coming from and how he sees himself as a musician. He's from Seattle (along with saxophonists Andrew D'Angelo and Chris Speed (I think)) and attended Berklee. He was doing the jazz thing and got really into Jeff "Tain" Watts to the point where he really began to sound like him. The influence of rock playing is also extremely evident in his style.
He moved to New York and began to play on the "downtown scene" with a bunch of different bands deriving from him and the two saxophonists above: Human Feel (with Kurt Rosenwinkel), Tyft (Hilmar Jensson with Black and D'Angelo), Ellery Eskelin Trio (Eskelin, Black, and Andrea Parkins), and his own band Alasnoaxis (with Speed, Jensson, and Skuli Sverisson). He was/is also a member of the Ben Monder Trio.
Black's playing is really breath-taking from every angle. First, his technique is pretty flawless. His time is just infinitely solid at every subdivision and at every tempo, even during free improvisations with no tempo. However, the side of him that really transcends is his sense of musicality. He is one of the most sensitive drummers/musicians I have ever listened to, and is operating at such a high level of connection and communication with every band he plays in. The passion he puts into the music clearly comes from somewhere deep.
He says of himself: "I'm not a jazz musician, I'm an improvisor." The distinction is really interesting, especially from the musicologist's perspective of trying to define the jazz idiom.
And, completely unlike the tone of this post, he seems to be a really down-to-earth guy.
Anyway, the important stuff - what the guy actually sounds like:
with Human Feel:
with Tim Berne, Chris Speed, Michael Formanek, and Marc Ducret
with Ellery Eskelin and Andrea Parkins (trailer for Eskelin's dvd, narrated by his son Rami)
I wish I had a more varied cross-section of his sound.
Other drummers in a similar vein to Jim Black are Tom Rainey, Nasheet Waits, and John Hollenbeck. All are absolute monsters and definitely worth checking out.
Anybody have anything to say about Jim Black?
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I'm just recently getting into Jim Black. A lot of the stuff he's doing is a little over my head. I like a lot of the free stuff, but I'm just now kind of cracking the code of whats going on. Technically, the guy is no doubt a monster. I'm really exited to get deeper into this guys thing so I can better understand it.
Great post Ocean. Thanks for all the videos.
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Nice post OD--thanks for sharing your experience with Jim.
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I see youve already been directed to the Erik Lund established Jim Black thread. I wish jim black would come to my school. Id love to see him play. Just got a new Human Feel album, Galore, really killin stuff.
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Awesome, I'm glad some other folks have an interest in this guy. Thanks for pointing me to the other thread, I never would have found it.
Yeah, most of what he's doing is just completely beyond me, but when I listen to it I just hear something so musical. He's one of those guys you uncover six new things every time you listen to a recording. I transcribed a Monder tune he was on and it was just crazy. The way he develops motifs and is able to imply a groove while playing every which way around it is just staggering.
britt - I saw you mentioned Chris Speed's Emit on the other thread. That's been one of my favorite recordings lately. I'll have to check out the Human Feel record, I've only heard Speak to It and Welcome to Malpesta.
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Sources: The Austin Office of Emergency Managment and the Norman National Weather Service Forecast Office


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The PanOptic Ophthalmoscope incorporates an innovative and patented new optical design called Axial PointSource Optics. This enabling technology makes it easier to enter small pupils and provides a dramatically wider, more panoramic view of the fundus that's 5X larger than ever before achieved with a standard ophthalmoscope in an undilated eye. The model 11810 head features a half-moon aperture (which provides a combination of depth perception & field of view). Now this PanOptic is available in a convenient diagnostic set.
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